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. >>> republicans head to the white house today for talks with president obama. >>> plus a bad day for one hobbled 18-wheeler. extreme rollerblading. and the best soft drink to ease that hangover. "early today" starts right now. >>> this is "early today "for thursday, october 10th. >> very good morning to you, i'm richard lui. breaking news for you from libya overnight. armed militants kidnapping the prime minister. early reports indicate it might be retaliation for last weekend's u.s.-led raid in the country. but now the prime minister has been freed. our reporter joins us live from beirut. atia, good morning to you, and what's the latest? >> reporter: as you mentioned, just hours after his abduction by armed gunmen in the hotel he was residing in, the libyan prime minister has been released. the rebels who took him, in fact, said that the reason they captured him was because of bribery and corruption charges. they don't claim to have a connection to the u.s. raid on saturday, but many speculate that there may be a connection, that the u.s. commando raid that captured al liby for his
. >>> republicans head to the white house today for talks with president obama. >>> plus a bad day for one hobbled 18-wheeler. extreme rollerblading. and the best soft drink to ease that hangover. "early today" starts right now. >>> this is "early today "for thursday, october 10th. >> very good morning to you, i'm richard lui. breaking news for you from libya overnight. armed militants kidnapping the prime minister. early reports indicate it...
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he says he will, quote, tell the truth in the face of sweet talk and the onslaught of smiles from iran's president hassan rowhani. at issue rowhani's gestures and that phone call heard around the world on friday, it was the first conversation between the u.s. and iran in 34 years. for netanyahu, it is nothing short of a nate mare. he believes iran's gestures are a ploy attempting to disguise his sfwent to create a nuclear bomb, something netten yeah haw has warned about for years. but iran says its program is for peaceful purposes only. >>> sledgehammers are just one tool inspectors could use to destroy syria's ability to make chemical weapons. the others, equally arcane. they might even blow up delivery missiles, drove tanks over empty shells or fill them with concrete. and run machines without lubricants so they become inoperable. an initial group of 20 inspectors is leaving for syria today. now, syria acknowledged for the first time it had chemical weapons following a deadly gas attack in august. the u.s. and russia agree syria has roughly 1,000 metric tons of them. syria's president
he says he will, quote, tell the truth in the face of sweet talk and the onslaught of smiles from iran's president hassan rowhani. at issue rowhani's gestures and that phone call heard around the world on friday, it was the first conversation between the u.s. and iran in 34 years. for netanyahu, it is nothing short of a nate mare. he believes iran's gestures are a ploy attempting to disguise his sfwent to create a nuclear bomb, something netten yeah haw has warned about for years. but iran says...
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>> al, thank you. >>> coming up next, chelsea clinton talks about her new role with president obama's inauguration and some other things. we'll check in with her in a few moments. first this is "today" on nbc. >>> we're back now at 8:26. president obama will kick off his inauguration weekend saturday with a national day of service. volunteer events will be held in all 50 states and the obamas and bidens will attend a service fair on the national mall featuring 100 volunteer organizations. nbc's special correspondent chelsea clinton is the honorary chair of that event. chelsea, nice to see you. good morning. >> nice to see you, matt. good morning. >> i know michelle obama said back in 2009 at the first inaugural, the national service day was her favorite part of the entire event. i also know she and her husband, and the bidens and you would like to grow that event. how do you go about doing it? >> oh, we're so excited. we have events in every state. we have more than 2,000 different events. there will be more than 50,000 volunteer opportunities for people to take advantage of. and on t
>> al, thank you. >>> coming up next, chelsea clinton talks about her new role with president obama's inauguration and some other things. we'll check in with her in a few moments. first this is "today" on nbc. >>> we're back now at 8:26. president obama will kick off his inauguration weekend saturday with a national day of service. volunteer events will be held in all 50 states and the obamas and bidens will attend a service fair on the national mall featuring...
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as we talk about deepening u.s. involvement, is this arming the rebels, as many of the obama administration critics say too little too late? >> reporter: we spoke to diplomatic sources and rebels themselves, and unless something changes quickly the rebels are going to lose this fight. the key change happened when hezbollah started to intervene in a major way on behalf of the syrian government. it's a big militia and organized. but it's not just hezbollah, and you have the iranian guard and iraqi shiite militias. so unless something happens, they are going to lose. >> thesitants of the administration could have delayed this. >> reporter: is that a leg legitimate concern, and there could be squabbling on the ground between rebel groups, jealousies, but if you talk to the rebels, they say the best way to weaken the fringe groups is by supporting the mainstream groups, and the stronger you make them and the more stronger they seem and the more supporters they can bring to their cause and make the fringe groups appear mo
as we talk about deepening u.s. involvement, is this arming the rebels, as many of the obama administration critics say too little too late? >> reporter: we spoke to diplomatic sources and rebels themselves, and unless something changes quickly the rebels are going to lose this fight. the key change happened when hezbollah started to intervene in a major way on behalf of the syrian government. it's a big militia and organized. but it's not just hezbollah, and you have the iranian guard...
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when president obama was talking about the tragedy in connecticut, this is a man who's a father, and, you know, and the leader of our country. you know, to see that emotion, i don't think there's anything wrong with that. >> i don't think it's a problem when it comes from a place of sinceri sincerity. when it's political and calculated, that's when it brings us to some problems. jason, somebody does something wrong, they do the mandatory sit-down interview, they show tears, they think by becoming a little bit more vulnerable, opening themselves up, maybe the public will forgive them. >> i thought back to 2007, right after kanye west lost his mother, he was in paris, he decided to go on with the concert, go on stage, and he could not get through the song at all. literally, he left the stage for 10 to 15 minutes. so it was a very emotional moment and understandably so for him. and chris brown at the b.e.t. rewards, he lost it, but chris had gone through a lot before that performance, so maybe he was thinking about his past. but i like it. you can relate to people more when you see that
when president obama was talking about the tragedy in connecticut, this is a man who's a father, and, you know, and the leader of our country. you know, to see that emotion, i don't think there's anything wrong with that. >> i don't think it's a problem when it comes from a place of sinceri sincerity. when it's political and calculated, that's when it brings us to some problems. jason, somebody does something wrong, they do the mandatory sit-down interview, they show tears, they think by...
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he apparently wants president obama to have some sort of written apology in order for this agreement to go forward. what we're talking about right now is an agreement that could keep american troops in this country, commit billions of american dollars to this country but in order to have the privilege of american troops leaving their bases in order to conduct counterterrorism raids which would benefit both the united states and afghans, he first wants an apology from president obama saying we're sorry for previous abuses and we'll make sure that there are no abuses in the future. some afghan officials we have been speaking to are embarrassed by this. >> richard engel in kabul this morning. thank you very much. >>> natalie is here with important developments on the issue of abortion. >> good morning. two major decisions on abortion tuesday that could have an impact nationwide. in albuquerque, new mexico, voters there have rejected a ban on abortions after 20 weeks. abortion opponents hoped that would create momentum nationally in the long-running fight. also the u.s. supreme court ref
he apparently wants president obama to have some sort of written apology in order for this agreement to go forward. what we're talking about right now is an agreement that could keep american troops in this country, commit billions of american dollars to this country but in order to have the privilege of american troops leaving their bases in order to conduct counterterrorism raids which would benefit both the united states and afghans, he first wants an apology from president obama saying...
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incident or hinder iran talks. >> that's not a new thing. >> boom. >> i don't know if it's going to replace the handshake. >> no. >> but it's a good alternative if you're worried about germs. >> diseases. >> you took it to a new level. >> that's a whole different thing. >> where are you hanging out. >> kanye west again. >> the gift that keeps giving. >> he has now compared to his love story with kim kardashian to that of romeo and juliet. >> no. >> he did it here on hot 97 in new york. >> i knew that i wanted this family and with her. i felt like our love story is like, you know, a love story for the ages. i felt like when we first got together it was like a romeo and juliet kind of thing where it's like she is reality star and i'm a rapper -- >> first of all, that has nothing to do with romeo and juliet. >> so the kardashians are the capulets? >> there's another problem. >> they end up dead. >> have you ever read romeo and juliet? >> that's a bad ending for everybody. >> wow. >> kanye also said quote y'all are acting like this ain't the most beautiful woman of all time, arguably of
incident or hinder iran talks. >> that's not a new thing. >> boom. >> i don't know if it's going to replace the handshake. >> no. >> but it's a good alternative if you're worried about germs. >> diseases. >> you took it to a new level. >> that's a whole different thing. >> where are you hanging out. >> kanye west again. >> the gift that keeps giving. >> he has now compared to his love story with kim kardashian to that of...
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. >>> there is another revelation that has a lot of people in washington talking this morning. a new book claims top aides to the president, president obama, gave serious consideration to replacing vice president joe biden on the 2012 ticket. nbc's andrea mitchell has details on that. andrea, tell us what you know. >> reporter: good morning, matt. three years ago, their book changed the game with revelations ranging from sarah palin's private meltdown to john edwards' very public one. now, mark halperin and mark hileman are reluising "double down," another tale of upheaval over running mates. in late 2011, as republican front-runners traded places, the new book reveals that the president's team considered a high-profile swap of its own, replacing vice president biden with hillary clinton. nbc confirms that then chief of staff bill daley went so far as to secretly poll how voters might react but learned it wouldn't improve obama's chances. but the campaign did shut biden out of tragedy sessions after he preempted obama's plan to endorse same-sex marriage by doing it first on "me
. >>> there is another revelation that has a lot of people in washington talking this morning. a new book claims top aides to the president, president obama, gave serious consideration to replacing vice president joe biden on the 2012 ticket. nbc's andrea mitchell has details on that. andrea, tell us what you know. >> reporter: good morning, matt. three years ago, their book changed the game with revelations ranging from sarah palin's private meltdown to john edwards' very public...
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let's talk about the book, which is increasingly timely as we speak, but let's talk about the sequester. terrible phrase, we hate the word. >> yeah. >> it was supposed to be something that forced both sides to the table, cuts that were so bad that they would never go into effect. here we are in the sequester era. how does this end? what gets them to the table? >> i was trying to come up with the perfect metaphor. in prohibition, to stop people from drinking, the government would put poison in industrial alcohol. they didn't do anything to stop the underlying problem of people wanting to drink, so they poisoned a lot of people. this is the same thing. it's supposed to be aversion therapy. it's supposed to be so awful, we won't do it, but we've gone and done it anyway. >> to borrow your metaphor it's not a poison that kills you overnight, a slow, rolling poison. >> it is designed to be harmful. that's the way the sequester cuts were put together. they were designed to be distasteful. president's words, dumb. and they are on both sides. nobody likes what these do to the country. they were
let's talk about the book, which is increasingly timely as we speak, but let's talk about the sequester. terrible phrase, we hate the word. >> yeah. >> it was supposed to be something that forced both sides to the table, cuts that were so bad that they would never go into effect. here we are in the sequester era. how does this end? what gets them to the table? >> i was trying to come up with the perfect metaphor. in prohibition, to stop people from drinking, the government...
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we'll talk to the reporter who broke that story. >>> then president obama launching a campaign style push to gain public support for sweeping gun control efforts. the national rifle association is vowing the fight of the century to block that. we'll talk to the nra's president coming up. >>> an inside look at scientology. an exclusive interview with oscar winning director and former scientology member paul hagut says he thinks the religion is a cult. the church dismisses him as the hypocrite of hollywood. we'll speak with him and talk to the author of a new book that explores the link between scientology and hollywood. >>> we want to get to breaking news. nbc's nichelle cokosinkski liven london. >> reporter: this has been changing by the moment. first, the report that a number of hostages has escaped. now that algerians have raided the facility and a number of have been killed, including hostages. 41 people held, among them americans, british, norwegians, and they called this retribution for french intervention in neighboring mali against militant there. at this hour scattered report
we'll talk to the reporter who broke that story. >>> then president obama launching a campaign style push to gain public support for sweeping gun control efforts. the national rifle association is vowing the fight of the century to block that. we'll talk to the nra's president coming up. >>> an inside look at scientology. an exclusive interview with oscar winning director and former scientology member paul hagut says he thinks the religion is a cult. the church dismisses him...